Can Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity Get Doug Hoffman Elected?

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by Steve Krakauer | 8:58 am, November 3rd, 2009

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Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity really want Doug Hoffman to win that special congressional election in Upstate New York’s 23rd district. It’s not just because he’s a 3rd party “Conservative” candidate in a race that saw the shunned, moderate Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava drop out and endorse the Democrat, Bill Owens.

It’s because this race is a referendum on town halls, on tea partying, on the 9/12 Project.

Last night Hannity had on Hoffman to attempt to seal the victory, with a lengthy interview at the top of his show. But it wasn’t just Hoffman – the candidate (who has never run for political office and has said he never planned to) sat quietly while he was flanked by Fred Thompson and Jeri Thompson, who sounded quite politically polished herself. In fact, for the majority of the interview, Hoffman sat quietly, hands folded in his lap, periodically saying things like, “We’ve got to fight!” while Hannity and the Thompson’s took the lead.

“I wasn’t paying attention to it as closely as you were,” said Hannity to Jeri. “Then I started reading your emails and I started wrapping my arms around it, and it wasn’t just me by the way there were other conservatives Mark Levin is another one, and we spoke at length about it.”

Earlier in the evening, Hannity’s lead partner in the election of Hoffman, Glenn Beck, spent nearly 10 minutes hammering home just how very important this run-off race was. “I really don’t care about local politics all that much,” he said, which is pretty much what the Watertown Daily Times found out about Hoffman himself, who doesn’t even live in the district. “I really don’t follow this, I mean I do a national show, but I am watching this one, but not because Doug Hoffman is all that electric…” (and Glenn Beck knows electric) “…I don’t know much about him but from what I do know I seem to like, but who knows.”

Then he played a clip of his interview with Hoffman on his radio show earlier that day. But he didn’t play the part that’s getting all that attention.

>>> NEXT PAGE: Take a guess who Hoffman calls a “mentor”…and why it’s not just Beck/Hannity (and video/audio)

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Isn’t this just another example of where Fox News is a political advocacy bureau? Not covering, but involving.
Fidoohki

No, it’s an example of telling the other side instead of just telling the Obama agenda.
ImNotBlue

In the NY23rd race, it’s not who wins really… it’s the fact that the Tea Partiers were able to get the “Republican” (not the quotes) to withdraw. That shows their movement is gaining power. To go from nothing, to influencing a candidate to resign… especially when they were doing well in the polls… is very significant. A win would be amazing politically… but events preceeding it show of things to come.
Tater Salad

The candidate in the 23rd. district was a Democratic ….plant it would seem. She even supported the criminal enterprise…..Acorn.
http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

To be fair, Hannity is open about being an opinion show, so this is not any proof of advocacy in the news side of Fox. This does not mean it doesn’t exist (it does, just the same as MSNBC), but Hannity is an OPINION show.

Granted that Hannity is another coward with a microphone, at least he does not pretend to be an actual journalist, unlike say, Olbermann or Dobbs or Greta.

As far as the “telling the other side” comment, that is inaccurate as far as journalism. Actual journalism involves telling both sides, which nobody does. Not Fox, not MSNBC, not CBS, ABC, CNN or any other. They all tell the side they like.

But the opinion shows do not count towards that.
http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

And Tater Salad happily points out the GOP’s biggest problem – intolerance towards any but hard party line. If a Republican has a position that is not on the marching orders, they get cut out. Thus a moderate Republican becomes a Democratic “plant,” instead of just a moderate Republican.

In a great example of hypocrisy, this is exactly what the Dems did to Lieberman in his re-election bid. A move the GOP scoffed at. Yet here they are doing the same thing.

Both parties are officially corrupt and useless. They serve nobody and represent nobody. Michael Steele’s blog is called “Change the Game.” Well, it is not a game. It is about governance. The Dems fret over head counts in Congress while ignoring ethics violations that would make Nixon weep. Again, to them it is a game.

Well, to We the People, it is about our government, not head counts, wins, polls and the like. Both parties have set aside their duty to the voeters and serve only themselves.

I remain proudly No Party Affiliation and urge everyone else to unjoin with me.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

The Tea Partiers claim to be independent but they’re still trying to sell the same defective Bush/Republican policies that put us into what is apparently the Great Depression II. They can dress themselves up as 912ers or birthers or Becknuts or Tea Partiers – but underneath all that, it is all the same – defective policies that resulted in a doubling of the national debt, $1.2 trillion of the $1.4 trillion budget deficit for FY 2009, the least tax revenues since the first Great Depression and all the tea partiers can do is go into turbowhine about spending now trying to help Americans instead of the stupidity that included the Blunder in Iraq. Tea Partiers – still stupid after all these years.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Jones/1384303476 Chris Jones

Scuzzy wasn’t a “moderate republican” she was a liberal Democrat who called herself a “moderate republican”. It’s no accident that she talked about leaving the race “for the good of the republican party” — and then endorsed the democrat. Scuzzy is a shill for big labor, big government, and big socialism. She’s a disgrace and the GOP is a disgrace for nominating her.
http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

Apparently Chris Jones is now the official arbiter of who gets to be a Republican. Thus the party’s problems. Good luck with the exclusive entry qualifications the the so-called “big GOP tent.”
ImNotBlue

I don’t know what’s more depressing, Bill. The fact that you’re so wrong… or the fact that you’re proud to be so wrong.

All you’ve got is hate and ideology. That’s it. Bummer.

If you knew the first thing about the Tea Partiers, you’d know they oppose the same wasteful spending of the BUSH years, that they oppose now. But you don’t. All you know is that you have to hate them, before they don’t root for “your guy.” How does it feel to turn your mind, logic, and reason over to a political ideology? I bet it feels nice… not having to think. Too bad it doesn’t get you anywhere.
David Ladabouche

I agree that both parties have lost sight of who they represent. It’s staggering to realize that it’s not the health of the American people at stake, but which party wins with their healthcare proposal, whether it’s good for America or not. I’m tired of socalled journalists bashing personalities instead of issues.
Also, I think it’s a sad day in America that the religious right (not necessarily) and ultra conservatives came from all over the country like flies on horse dung to overthrow gay marriage in Maine, just as they did in California. They predicted doom and gloom after Mass. approved gay marriage and none of it has come to pass, in fact just the opposite. It’s too bad those millions couldn’t have been spent on people in our country (and their parishes) that are destitute instead of discriminating against a group of people who only want what the Constitution offers all Americans….the pursuit of happiness. What has the marriage of 1000′s of gay people so far in the states that have passed it cost heterosexuals? It’s a question no one wants to answer. Very sad indeed.